Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time. St. John Chrysostom “When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.” (From Contemplative Provocations by Father Donald Haggerty)

Lord, give us the grace to embrace, rather than flee from, the crosses you ask us to carry.

Some nourishment for our minds and souls:   "...the Gospel of today's Mass reminds us that if we are to follow Christ we have to carry our own Cross...There is no such thing as a Christianity without the Cross, designed for soft and pusillanimous Christians with no sense of sacrifice...One of the clearest symptoms of lukewarmness having entered into a soul is...an abandonment of the Cross, a contempt for little mortifications, a scorning of anything that in some way involves sacrifice and self-denial...The Christian who goes through life systematically avoiding sacrifice will not find God, will not find happiness. What he will have been taking care to avoid is his own sanctity." Quotes from From In Conversation With God (Vol. 2: 2.1 and 2.3 by Francis Fernandez)